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anticippointment

anticippointment noun: a feeling of anticipation followed by disappointment.

Noun

anticippointment (uncountable)

  1. (informal, rare) A feeling of anticipation followed by disappointment.
    • The unparalleled media hype surrounding the new film guaranteed that fans would experience anticippointment.

Forms of anticippointment

alternative formanticipointment

Origin of anticippointment

Blend of anticipation + disappointment.

Questions about anticippointment

What does anticippointment mean?
Anticippointment means a feeling of anticipation followed by disappointment.
What part of speech is anticippointment?
Anticippointment is a noun.

Words near anticippointment in the dictionary

  1. anticipatory repudiation
  2. anticipatory repudiations
  3. anticipatory retaliation
  4. anticipointment
  5. anticipointments
  6. anticippointment
  7. anticircular
  8. anticircumcision
  9. anticircumsporozoite
  10. anticircumvention
  11. anticircus

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